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you
cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people
with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
A
safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential
condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
An
important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is
money.
I
have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.
The
dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when
granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women
are given their rightful role in societies.
You
cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing
the basic issues of health and nutrition.
I
see WHO's role as being the moral voice and the technical leader in improving
health of the people of the world. Ready and able to give advice on the key issues
that can unleash development and alleviate suffering. I see our purpose to be
combating disease and ill-health - promoting sustainable and equitable health
systems in all countries".
if
globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look
more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do
not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of
institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our
future and international human rights law,
globalization
can help to transform the lives of millions. If, as many critics warn, it leads
to inequity, it is a sign of failure. Our challenge is to make the positive things
happen. To shape the world. To make certain that the forces of globalization contribute
to a more just and inclusive global society.
Only
when we convince these decision-makers about the wider social and economic benefits
to their country of investing in health, will we create a proper momentum for
improved health care.
People
are at the centre of sustainable development, and health is at the centre of human
development and prosperity.
We
are six billion people co-existing on our fragile planet, many of whom are dangerously
short of the food, water and security they need to live. In contrast, there are
millions who suffer because they use too much. All of them face high risks of
ill-health.
some
170 million children in poor countries are underweight, mainly from lack of food,
while more than one billion adults worldwide - in middle-income and high-income
countries alike - are overweight or obese.
With
vision, commitment and successful leadership, the world could end the first decade
of the 21st century having drastically reduced the gap between the rich and the
poor.
The
reality is that public health, as never before, is a priority on the global agenda.
This is for the simple reason that so many of the challenges we now face have
a global impact, requiring solutions and a global response. We are living in an
interconnected and interdependent world.
There
can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development
without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting
crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and
human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.
Women
power is a formidable force.
Women
will not become more empowered merely because we want them to be, but through
legislative changes, increased information, and redirection of resources. It would
be fatal to overlook this issue.
Never
have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have
so many been denied access to health.
Girls
and women who are denied access to education, information and real forms of economic,
social and political participation are particularly vulnerable. Some political
regimes favour vaccination of young boys over young girls. It is totally unacceptable
and we need to speak out against such practices
It
is simple, really. Human health and the health of ecosystems are inseparable.
We
are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's
people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global
and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its
centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the
health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
Health
is the core of human development.
More
than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic,
and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities,
and countries.
That
the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces
the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
